I recently used your redhat 7.1 reiserfs installation using ISO images from http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br. There is one minor problem: During the installation process a bootdisk can be generated and the user is advised to do so. This diskette does not boot. I installed a system with one reiserfs partition only (including /, /usr, /tmp ...) and in addition a swap partition. With root residing on an ext2 partition (say /dev/hda1) it is possible to do: 1. dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 2. rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 3. boot from diskette Apparently this simple method fails if root is itself of type reiserfs. The kernel expects the root file system to be of type ext2 and does not try reiserfs though reiserfs support had been compiled into (not as module). I suspect that for this reason redhat's initially created bootdiskette also fails. Any idea? -- Martin Goik Tel. +49-(0)711-685-8365 http://www.HdM-Stuttgart.de/~goik Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, administer.
